Fun Run

Isaac's school hosted a fun run as a fundraiser yesterday.  For the past two weeks they've been talking about it at school...making quite a big deal out of it.  Isaac was so excited for the actual run, he loved all of the fun things the organizers did at school.  He got a couple of pledges, practiced running/walking a mile a few days before, and went to school ready to run yesterday!  My mom and I took Luke and Hannah to watch the event, we were all so excited.  When we got there another mom mentioned that she had been there earlier in the day for her older child; and she said that many of the kids fell down because they ran into each other.  The run was in the parking lot, so these poor kids got pretty banged up.  This made me nervous, so I was sure to tell Isaac to be careful, it's not a race, just have fun. The run started and Isaac had a good first lap.  On the second lap he stopped for a drink, he stood there and drank the entire cup, then walked a little before running another lap again.  Then the next lap he stopped again, more water.  Every other lap he took a water break...it was killing the runner in me!  But he was having fun, doing all the fun things they said to do, and just enjoying himself!  At one point, the organizers asked the parents to jump in and run a lap with their kids.  I stood on the side and waited for Isaac to come to me.  As he ran over he cut across the group, another girl came full speed, and they didn't see each other.  CRASH!  They collided and both fell to the ground, the concrete!  The little girl fell on top of Isaac, so he broke her fall, but in doing so he scraped up his knee and elbow pretty badly.  He was so sad, hurting pretty badly, and scared to continue.  After cleaning it up and getting some band aids, then resting a few minutes, we finally convinced him to do another lap with me and Luke.  After one lap he wanted to sit again, so I let him rest.  Luke was not finished though, he loved it, so we ran two more laps together.  He's my runner and quite competitive, too!  Isaac ended the run with 16 laps, only 2 laps short of a mile.  I'm so proud of him for doing so well...apparently he was running pretty quickly in between his water breaks.  :-)

 

 

That's Isaac in the orange shorts and white shirt, he really enjoyed that big tunnel!

 

Resting after his crash.